"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt

Series

Social Justice

"Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reforms. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of struggle ... If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning ... The struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a phsyical one; or it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

paraclete: Euw! I just hiccuped and a little bit of sick came into my mouth, and I thought all of you would care, so I've told you all about it.ascorbic: I think that means you have avian influenza.spiregrain: Evian influenza, more like.paraclete: Gin and tonic influenza, more like.

"What you do in a good thunderstorm is walk out into a large field, climb an isolated tree and scream oaths at heaven and hell as the stinging raindrops numb your face."- Simulacron3

"People have said all sorts of things about me, but no one has before implied that my maleness is ugly from a grammar point of view."- Simulacron3

"My favorite novelization was The Passion of the Christ, except it had a lot of exposition about some people who weren't even in the movie, and it was a bit preachy, but otherwise, A+ material."-kthejoker

"We had snow last week. I shook an angry fist at the sky and shouted, "Enough of this shit!" and it stopped."- Simulacron3